Suggestion Box/Wishlist: what do we want from Ultrasabers?

[Darth Logos]

Azure scorpion or azure dominix v4 le would be awesome.  I wish they still had this azure standard issue saber:

http://i.imgur.com/6eGxY.jpg

I'm getting the hint that you really like the blue anod.

[Taegin Roan]

I'm getting the hint that you really like the blue anod.

Well his name is Edon Bluewolf

[Taegin Roan]

Oops, accidental double post. Can be deleted if someone wishes.

[Edon Bluewolf]

You caught me!    I got the azure reaper on order, and am saving up to someday hopefully get the azure mantis with diamond.

[Major Umbra]

I like that US keeps up on upgrades, (Diamond and designs) but I would like to make a suggestion...I would love to see more "modular" parts to create different designs with more color choices. I sent in a question about getting a LOST GREY in black anodizing. I got back a quick, nice response, but it was a no go. Sad I am willing to pay for the "extra" attention. Other than these words of suggestion, I love US! I will be buying my first saber(s) from them. I also love the amount of people who are into "mods".  (fonts and design) ; I have seen on MANY YOUTUBE videos. Kudos to all who keep sabering alive! Smiley I make custom personal sound fonts already in anticipation of my first saber. May the Force be with you, always.
~Major Umbra

[java_saint]

An interesting suggestion I have is to their website.

What I ask is a difficult requirement to be honest.

I wanna have something like a saber modelling interface,

Where when u pick a hilt. It would display the hilt witha default blade and color. Then when u change the blade color, the color changes in real time for u to see. You can do stuff like add windows, add switches etc to see how the lightsaber will look like.

There are some things that I imagine would look bad as a blade color with a certain hilt, but I see some examples on the forums that actually surprise me. It would help me in doing some experiments rather than using my imagination all the time.

[Darth Logos]

An interesting suggestion I have is to their website.

What I ask is a difficult requirement to be honest.

I wanna have something like a saber modelling interface,

Where when u pick a hilt. It would display the hilt witha default blade and color. Then when u change the blade color, the color changes in real time for u to see. You can do stuff like add windows, add switches etc to see how the lightsaber will look like.

There are some things that I imagine would look bad as a blade color with a certain hilt, but I see some examples on the forums that actually surprise me. It would help me in doing some experiments rather than using my imagination all the time.

You're suggesting a function that alters the image of the saber AS you pick your customizations?.....Intersesting. I actually think this could be easily done with rendered images.

[Taegin Roan]

An interesting suggestion I have is to their website.

What I ask is a difficult requirement to be honest.

I wanna have something like a saber modelling interface,

Where when u pick a hilt. It would display the hilt witha default blade and color. Then when u change the blade color, the color changes in real time for u to see. You can do stuff like add windows, add switches etc to see how the lightsaber will look like.

There are some things that I imagine would look bad as a blade color with a certain hilt, but I see some examples on the forums that actually surprise me. It would help me in doing some experiments rather than using my imagination all the time.

I do like this idea. A few years ago my brother found something like this somewhere else. I haven't even thought about it until you mentioned this just now, but I think it would be a really great resource.

[Lord Canterbury]

An interesting suggestion I have is to their website.

What I ask is a difficult requirement to be honest.

I wanna have something like a saber modelling interface,

Where when u pick a hilt. It would display the hilt witha default blade and color. Then when u change the blade color, the color changes in real time for u to see. You can do stuff like add windows, add switches etc to see how the lightsaber will look like.

There are some things that I imagine would look bad as a blade color with a certain hilt, but I see some examples on the forums that actually surprise me. It would help me in doing some experiments rather than using my imagination all the time.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was in the works now.  It's been suggested a bunch and if it gives people more confidence to pull the trigger on a purchase, it's a great investment for US.

Car companies have been doing that forever, as just one example.  I used to play on the Audi website all the time, like, 5 years ago doing that.

[MaskofMany]

Hmmm...  Ever since I got my Renegade a few months back, I've mulled this one over...

When you get a crossguard saber you have the option of getting either 6" or 8" crossguard blades.  Now, maybe this is me being knitpicky, but I do bladesmithing work as a sidebusiness / hobby, and I know the shapes that swords are supposed to be.  Now of course these toys (awesome toys, but still toys) aren't going to be exactly like real swords at all - aluminum handled-plastic blade light sabers are rarely going to be balanced the way an actual sword will be - that gets a total pass, but the proportional look is something else, and really the only one that just gets to me are the crossguard sabers.  And it's because the quillion is just too wide, even with 6" blades.  On my own I immediately ditched the 6" blades that came with it, and replaced them with 5" icicle lights, only 4" of which extend out of the emitters, and THAT allows for the quillion to be proportionally the right width for the length of the blade, and length of the handle. 

But man with the 6" blades...a Renegade ends up being about 18-19" wide at the quillion, and with 8" blades it's 20-21", and even with a 40" main blade that's a quillion that's basically half the length of your blade. 

Having the option to get your hands on 3", 4" and 5" crossguard blades would be awesome, and the easy fix for we picky folk hehe

[BlindJedi]

I have a bad feeling about this.
Actually, I have a list of characters I would like to see sabers based off of.
Please let me know if I missed any canon characters.
Anakin Skywalker  - Attack of the Clones
Plo Koon - The Clone Wars
Saesee Tiin - The Clone Wars
Onaconda Farr - The Clone Wars
Yoda - The Clone Wars
Chancellor Palpatine - Darth Sidious - All of it
Savage Opress - The Clone Wars
Count Dooku - Darth Tyranus - The Clone Wars
Mace Windu - I'm not sure, but I think he had a different hilt at one point
Luminara Unduli - The Clone Wars
Asajj Ventress - The Clone Wars
Ki-Adi-Mundi - The Clone Wars
Kit Fisto - The Clone Wars
Barriss Offee - The Clone Wars
Shaak Ti - The Clone Wars
Quinlin Vosk - The Clone Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Revenge of the Sith, without an activation box.
Ezra Bridger - Rebels
Kanan Jarrus - Rebels
Ahsoka Tano - Rebels
I think I got most of the names right, and hopefully didn't miss any.
So, live long and prosper.
Wait, wrong franchise.
May the force be with you always.

[Darth Logos]

I have a bad feeling about this.
Actually, I have a list of characters I would like to see sabers based off of.
Please let me know if I missed any canon characters.
Anakin Skywalker  - Attack of the Clones
Plo Koon - The Clone Wars
Saesee Tiin - The Clone Wars
Onaconda Farr - The Clone Wars
Yoda - The Clone Wars
Chancellor Palpatine - Darth Sidious - All of it
Savage Opress - The Clone Wars
Count Dooku - Darth Tyranus - The Clone Wars
Mace Windu - I'm not sure, but I think he had a different hilt at one point
Luminara Unduli - The Clone Wars
Asajj Ventress - The Clone Wars
Ki-Adi-Mundi - The Clone Wars
Kit Fisto - The Clone Wars
Barriss Offee - The Clone Wars
Shaak Ti - The Clone Wars
Quinlin Vosk - The Clone Wars
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Revenge of the Sith, without an activation box.
Ezra Bridger - Rebels
Kanan Jarrus - Rebels
Ahsoka Tano - Rebels
I think I got most of the names right, and hopefully didn't miss any.
So, live long and prosper.
Wait, wrong franchise.
May the force be with you always.

Anakins from ATC is effectively the Prophecy.
Plo Koon's is Windu's from TPM. Could easily be done with tweaks to a Menace emitter for the pommel.
Onoconda Farr was a Rodian senator, not a Jedi.
Yoda's saber is a little on the....ridiculously undersized side. However, if up-scaled properly, I think it would be an awesome hilt.
Same thing with Sidious'. We discussed the possibility not long ago. It would be picture accurate, but possible.
Dooku's has been suggested to death. I don't think the Mantis did terribly well in sales, and therefore US isn't rushing to release another "curved" hilt.
Luminara's is identical to Plo's.
Ventress' offer the same difficulties as Dooku's, just at the opposite end.
Shaak Ti's is effectively the Shock.
Vos' is not terribly dissimilar from the Guardian.
Which of Ezra's sabers are you suggesting. Personally I prefer his less gimmicky green saber.
And again...Tano's curved hilts fall into the hazards of a curved hilt, NTM their flat katana like cross-section.

[ithekro]

Of those, Tano's curved hilts and Dooku's hilt would probably the most interest.

Tano's because a matched pair of lightsaber katana would look really cool.

And for Dooku, having a fencing saber would be really nice.

Kanan's would also be nice due to the design, though it could probably not handle having a quick release on he emitter and still be viable for dueling unless it could be locked in place.

Ezra's first saber would be interesting with the blaster gimmick with the Diamond, if it can assign a slot for light and sound to the blaster tip.  It might be gesture fired I guess if there was no trigger added.  It is basically an Archon body with the blaster bits being he new emitter and pommel.

His second is sort of the Archon v3 emitter on a new hilt, or an Archon hilt with a cover over it.

[Darth Logos]

Of those, Tano's curved hilts and Dooku's hilt would probably the most interest.

Duh, cuz curved hilts are awesome.

[Zren Tobas]

Kind of a small one but a dark Manticore hi and low pommels added please? The low pommel would look good on the Dark Prophecy am I right? We have the emitter already so why not add the pommels?